Help?

[featherynscale]

I'm wondering if someone can point me somewhere useful.
Here's the deal:

I'm looking to do more creative writing. The brain is rusty and underused. I joined great_write_way, which provides a challenge once a week for very very short fiction. I like this. I think this is very, very cool. However, I would like to have some call to write more than once a week. And I am perfectly capable of coming up with my own prompts, but I want to put things out for comment/critique, and I don't want to do it here in my journal. I am cruel, sometimes, but I am not that cruel. I like you all too much to subject you to that.

Can anybody point me to a group (LJ communities are the best, since I'm already here) that they participate in or have seen and enjoy? I have been looking around, but since I really don't do fanfic (I'm not very fannish, or at least not involved enough in that sort of thing to be able to write convincing fanfic [not that 'convincing' seems to be important]), I haven't found much.

I did, however, find Jesus/Judas slash. But that's the sort of thing I have come to expect from the Internet.

Mercy Buckets.

EDIT: And if fionnabhar and I started our own writing community, would you come and play?

Comments

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Don't know of one off-hand, but by damn, we could sure start that sucker. What say you?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the other option. No need to, if there's somewhere already that we can go, but if there isn't, I'm in for starting our own. I bet agrnmn would play, too.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I'd sure come to watch, though I don't think I'd play. You need an audience, right?

Need an audience, us?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Probably :)
But I imagine we'd ask you to comment.

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

Like saffronhare I would certainly like to watch, and might even find the gumption to play rarely.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

If you started your own community, I would come and watch. And I'd probably comment. But I would be very surprised if I ever submitted anything.

[rio-luna.livejournal.com]

i'll play

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

There's musemuggers which some friends are part of - it gives prompts and you decide whether to write someting to answer the prompt this time around or not, but its a closed community with limited membership so once you're in, you've got to write a minimum amount of stuff or they ask you to leave to make room for someone who'll maybe get more out of it. Not sure if that's the sort of thing that would appeal?

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I take it you'ev already hack-and-slashed your way through the communities with interest 'writing'? I know there's a lot of them, but surely you're not the only one to have this question, and yet be a quality writer, on LJ.

I say this from the loving place of someone who doesn't necessarily want to see you start something new that you don't have to, unless you want to...

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, some of us who would be interested in forming an audience for a smaller, start-up community might not be prepared to give our attention to a larger extant community.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I have done. There's a lot of hack and a lot of slash to be had.

Granted, I haven't been through all of them. But 90% seem to be devoted to a fandom or to fandom in general, which I don't want, and I got sort of tired of wading through it all. And I know that there are a fair number of writers on my friends-list, so I thought I'd ask.

The gods know I am lazy and don't want to do any work I don't have to.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

A fine point.

If you build it, they may come

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

As long as the last sentance still applies, I'm in favor of it.

I never expected TOTC to take off like it did, either, so you may be 'on' to something...

[agrnmn.livejournal.com]

Yep I'll play. I gotta get off my ass about this writing thing.

Re: the last sentence

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'm 80% sure that's one of those things that you could engrave on my tombstone now and it would still be true the day I died. I am lazy like whoa.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I'll mod it if that helps. Never done that before, but I figure we need to do it by invite. Ought to be pretty self-managing that way. I think.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

TOTC works pretty well, despite its controversial nature, by just putting posts on my friends page where I'll see them. The one ass-hat we had just made me institute a 'screen posts by non-members' setting, which I can show FNS how to set up if you like. Then I just use the ban function liberally when needed, which is very infrequently. I expect if you craft a good info page, you'll have even less problems than I.

Crap. I should go home. *whap self*

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I do believe that I am highly interested in such a thing... I don't know why but that's what I believe...

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Pwease, I wanna pway....pwease?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Built it, sent you an invite. Wanna take a look around before I start inviting more people in?

Also, I'm with triadruid. Let's start out open, with the stated option to boot people who make trouble, and see what happens. If it starts to get out of hand, we can always lock it down later. I just want to get a decent membership at first.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I didn't get an invite to anything that I know of. Did I miss something obvious?